Italy | 120 min

Cast: Helmut Berger, Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano

Director: Luchino Visconti

An elderly professor lives barricaded in his apartment. One day the Marquise Bianca Brumonti and her family, wealthy exponents of a new and arrogant bourgeoisie, settle upstairs. The professor, annoyed by the scandalous intruders, tries to avoid them but something does not go according to plan.